Quotes About British Rule In India

#1. It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Alan Alda

#2. The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

Beeban Kidron

#3. I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#4. In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

Arundhati Roy

#5. I love Mr. Darcy

Erynn Mangum

#6. The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

Eudora Welty

#9. The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

Lala Lajpat Rai

#10. the following paragraph from an article of his on British rule in India, written in 1853:

Anonymous

#11. He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.

Charlaine Harris

#13. So much my parents as my little brother. What would this do to him?

Gayle Forman

#14. Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business.

Darren Shan

#16. I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Edward Teller

#17. DNA is, as it were, especially unalive. It is among the most nonreactive, chemically inert molecules in the living world,

Bill Bryson

#18. The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not survive long. I declare that the blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of the British rule in India.

Lala Lajpat Rai

#19. India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

Pankaj Mishra

#21. Dragons are fire made flesh.

George R R Martin